On Degrowth
By Kamran Nayeri, Our Place in the World
Degrowth shines a light on the problem of growth on a planet with finite resources. It also envisions a smaller human society living on a shrinking economic pie...
Tag: degrowth perspectives
Portrayals of Degrowth in the Press: ‘Free market magic’ vs ‘Radical doomsayers’
By Anna Pringle, Degrowth.de
The English-language press is not informing the public thoughtfully of alternatives to our current political-economic system or the impact of unfettered growth on the planet.
Degrowth and law – how to combine these concepts?
By Geoffrey Garver, Degrowth.de
Humanity’s overarching challenge is to learn how to stop individually and collectively doing harmful things we are used to and conditioned to doing. Meeting that challenge, through degrowth or otherwise, requires some form of law.
Collective learnings from the 2020 Latin American Degrowth Forum
By Diego Arahuetés, Gabriela Cabaña, Mariana Calcagni, María Paz Aedo, Degrowth.de
Facing the threat of an “economic reactivation” that reproduces and deepens the ideology of infinite economic growth and its impacts, it becomes necessary to make visible, share, and co-create alternatives to our current model of civilization.
Caring for Change: Our Degrowth is Intersectional!
By Corinna Dengler, Giacomo D’Alisa, Degrowth.de
The Covid-19 pandemic has made all the more evident what feminists have long argued, namely that care work – especially direct care work which involves a relation between a caregiver and a care receiver – is the foundation of our economy and society.
Beyond Capitalist Realism: The Politics, Energetics, and Aesthetics of Degrowth
By Samuel Alexander, The Simplicity Collective
I reject capitalist realism as unrealistic, as an artefact of false consciousness; as false consciousness itself, blind to its ecocidal nature.
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way
By Samuel Miller McDonald, Jason Hickel, The Trouble
At its most distilled, “degrowth” refers to a process of reducing the material impact of the economy on the world’s many imperiled ecologies, abandoning GDP as a measurement of well-being, and forging an equitable steady-state economy.
Degrowing for peace? Tackling structural violence and climate resilience
By Christie Nicoson, Resilience.org
Examples of degrowth provide a starting point for considering concrete steps toward tackling structural violence, fostering climate resilience, and advancing peace.
Degrowth and the Unmaking of Capitalism
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, Degrowth.de
How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
Farmers and a degrowth economy in Russia
By Teodor Shanin, Degrowth.de
The global crisis gives a chance for a new model of living to emerge – an economy of degrowth. In an interview with the LavkaGazeta, Teodor Shanin is reflecting on the role that farming can play in the new model of development.
“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth”
By Dick Burkhart, Resilience.org
In Europe, “degrowth” is actually a movement, while in the US it is barely mentionable in polite society. To question “growth” would be the death knell for any serious politician.
Reflecting on the emerging strategy debate in the degrowth movement
By Nathan Barlow, Joe Herbert, Degrowth.de
We believe the degrowth community should invest time and energy into the creation and legitimisation of a Degrowth International, to conduct these processes of collective deliberation.